Speaker 1: All right, Scott, you ready, Cratty, I'm ready to laugh
Speaker 1: and laugh and love. Oh.
Speaker 2: I have so many good ones. I just don't know
Speaker 2: what to start with. This is so good. All right
Speaker 2: here it is mm hmm. Meet Akayama Toyohiro, the Japanese
Speaker 2: astronaut who hated space.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my guy, my guy. He's out there. But get
Speaker 1: in here. We're listening to the Bananas Podcast. We're the
Speaker 1: Banana Boys. You're here. It's real, it's happening right now.
Speaker 2: World. Would you believe.
Speaker 3: Your mind?
Speaker 1: Jozillion pieces?
Speaker 2: Would you banana?
Speaker 4: Banana Guys, Goals, non binary pass Welcome to Bananas.
Speaker 2: I'm Kurt Brown Oler.
Speaker 1: I am Banana boy number two Scotti Landis. Thank you
Speaker 1: all very much for just taking time out of your
Speaker 1: busy lives, your stressful moments, and checking out the silliest
Speaker 1: little podcast there ever was. We call Bananas. It's strange news,
Speaker 1: it's storytelling. We just like to have a good time.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Chicago, I'm doing stand up Inside you March e
Speaker 2: May eighth, May eighth, May eighth at the at the
Speaker 2: at the Den, So please go get your tickets for that.
Speaker 2: And also I'll be in Asbery Park the day before,
Speaker 2: and I'll be in Cincinnati, Ohio the day after that,
Speaker 2: so go get them in Scottie and I will, of
Speaker 2: course March twenty ninth, be in Phoenix, Arizona.
Speaker 1: Yes we will. I'm gonna drink Margarita's before, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: drink vodka Sota's during, and I'm gonna drink I don't
Speaker 1: know what after, but it's gonna be a very fun
Speaker 1: live show. If you've never seen us live, we just
Speaker 1: try to bring a lot of good energy and we
Speaker 1: hope you do too. Bring a friends, I never heard
Speaker 1: of the pod. They'll love it.
Speaker 2: They will love it. And of course we are here today.
Speaker 2: We're here today a very special guest. You know her,
Speaker 2: you love her. She's a full human. She is not
Speaker 2: used to be our intern. She is now the only
Speaker 2: part time employee of The Bananas Podcast. We are so
Speaker 2: happy to have her. Please welcome to the show for
Speaker 2: her own full episode. Lisa Maggot.
Speaker 5: Everyone, thank you, thanks for having me here.
Speaker 1: It is Lisa. We did say nols. Lisa Maggot, the
Speaker 1: Big Three, the iconoclass of entertainment, and we're so lucky
Speaker 1: to have you.
Speaker 2: How is your day in New York? City, Lisa, my
Speaker 2: day was good.
Speaker 5: It's a little wet same here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh really, it's a rainy day episode of Bananas.
Speaker 2: That's what this is going to be. I hope it's
Speaker 2: raining where you are. It's okay that it's raining. Put
Speaker 2: this on, you know what I put on. I put
Speaker 2: on a little Miles Davis when it's raining, but instead
Speaker 2: put on the Bananas podcast.
Speaker 1: All right, Lisa, you respond to our DM sometimes on Instagram.
Speaker 1: How do you rate the Banana bananimals? Do you enjoy
Speaker 1: interacting with them?
Speaker 5: I love the bananimals.
Speaker 3: They have always been so nice and so funny, send
Speaker 3: great articles in and sometimes just set like share personal
Speaker 3: things that it's really a lot and it's very touching
Speaker 3: a lot of times. And they love you guys, basically
Speaker 3: is what a lot of it is is them telling
Speaker 3: you how great you both are. And I of course
Speaker 3: don't tell you about it, because you know, I don't
Speaker 3: want to play too much.
Speaker 5: You don't need to know.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, it's it's too much, but it's great. I
Speaker 3: love speaking with the fans one myself.
Speaker 1: Well, that's very kind. You do a great job at it. Yes,
Speaker 1: they are wildly supportive and loving bunch and thanks for
Speaker 1: always responding with such care and grace.
Speaker 2: So we're gonna do. Do you want to get into
Speaker 2: this story because I'm very excited to tell you about
Speaker 2: this astronaut, Lisa.
Speaker 3: I would love to hear about an astronaut who doesn't
Speaker 3: care for space.
Speaker 2: This was in IFL Science, my favorite. I first found
Speaker 2: out about this from depths of Wikipedia. Shout out to
Speaker 2: depths of Wikipedia.
Speaker 1: So good.
Speaker 2: It's such a good Instagram account, just go follow it.
Speaker 2: And this was the bizarre story of Japan's first astronaut.
Speaker 2: This was written by Tom Hale. Tom A lot of
Speaker 2: people say. There's one thing people say about Tom. You
Speaker 2: know what it is.
Speaker 3: I've heard that he is the maybe the best to
Speaker 3: medium best in the business. But I'm gonna say that
Speaker 3: that is correct.
Speaker 1: It is here.
Speaker 2: It is. The image of an astronaut is somewhere between
Speaker 2: an action man and a short back in sides Air
Speaker 2: Force trained engineering school prodigy. But then there is Japan's
Speaker 2: first man in space, light years away from any such stereotypes.
Speaker 2: Toyo hero Akiyama was the unlikely chained smoking journalist who
Speaker 2: ended up taking a trip to the Soviet space station
Speaker 2: Mirror while his name might not be in many history books.
Speaker 2: I think I said it backwards. Oh my god, Akiyama
Speaker 2: Toyo hero is how it's in one article and in
Speaker 2: this article it's Tokyo Hero Akiyama. Okay, so it's one
Speaker 2: of the other. I'm confused. So the obscure piece of
Speaker 2: space history begins. In nineteen eighty nine, the Cold War
Speaker 2: was cooling and Japan was enjoying a bubble era of
Speaker 2: economic excess. Now the USSR was sinking in Japan's fortunes
Speaker 2: were rising. The Tokyo Broadcast System TBS. Did you guys
Speaker 2: know that TV? This was the Tokyo Broadcasting System TBS.
Speaker 1: I love those impractical jokers characters.
Speaker 2: Welcome dreamed up a crazy ploy to celebrate and promote
Speaker 2: the station's fortieth anniversary. The plan involved a publicity stunt
Speaker 2: of epic proportions, one that could have only occurred in
Speaker 2: the transitory turn of the nineteen nineties. By nineteen eighty nine,
Speaker 2: Gorbachev was still on his way to disarming the USSR.
Speaker 2: Soviet unions lozi ba b b b bah. This is why.
Speaker 2: It's just because the Zovie unions having tough time with
Speaker 2: United States blessing. The TBS paid, and I want everyone
Speaker 2: to imagine it's our TBS who's doing this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, turn Broadcast Systems or whatever.
Speaker 2: Yes, TBS paid one point five billion yen, which was
Speaker 2: ten million dollars to send a journalist up to the
Speaker 2: Mere space station for a TV show called all right
Speaker 2: here I go. I'm gonna try it nihon jin hatsu
Speaker 2: akui e loosely translated as first Japanese space A mad idea,
Speaker 2: but then again, this was the TV company that commissioned
Speaker 2: and aired Tukeshi's Castle. Ah. Yes, not only would this
Speaker 2: be I tried to show. I tried to show the
Speaker 2: moving castle to to to my kids, the one where
Speaker 2: it's like their parents turn into like slovenly pigs at
Speaker 2: the at the eating bar. Do you guys know what
Speaker 2: I'm talking about?
Speaker 1: I do? Actually yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: And right when the like the parents became slovenly pigs
Speaker 2: and didn't recognize them both my kids were like, can
Speaker 2: we turn this off?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I could see why.
Speaker 2: So not only would this be the first Japanese citizen space,
Speaker 2: it would also be the first journalist in space. So
Speaker 2: to land this history defining role TBS and the Soviets
Speaker 2: decided to, said the forty seven year old salary man
Speaker 2: Tellyo a hero. Akiyama, a TV journalist who had never
Speaker 2: ever muttered a word of Russian. Akaiyama worked as a
Speaker 2: reporter during the Vietnam War. Even i'd started working for
Speaker 2: the BBC in London, however, experience of space was limited
Speaker 2: through the just to the lens of the media. Yeah,
Speaker 2: like you or.
Speaker 1: Me, like one of the three of us, just plucked
Speaker 1: out of obscurity and sent into space.
Speaker 2: Exactly before this, his most strenuous exercise was said to
Speaker 2: be lifting his cigarette to his mouth. God. Nevertheless, Akayama
Speaker 2: spent over a year at Star City Cosmonaut training village,
Speaker 2: undergoing medical checks, lectures, and physical training. So he actually
Speaker 2: he actually quit smoking for four months to do this
Speaker 2: because he was a he loved to smoke.
Speaker 3: I'm getting a little bit of an Armageddon vibe here
Speaker 3: from this.
Speaker 2: This is ya, it really is. But see this is
Speaker 2: the reality. Armageddon would happen if someone needed to do
Speaker 2: like a publicity stunt. But Armageddon would it happened if
Speaker 2: we needed to divert an asteroid from hitting us.
Speaker 1: I feel like it also, I wonder how much of
Speaker 1: him hating space is him not being able to smoke
Speaker 1: cigarettes in space. I bet it's like twenty percent.
Speaker 2: The first thing he says when he lands is how
Speaker 2: is space? And he said, I can't wait to smoke?
Speaker 1: So addictive? They are so addictive. He can look at
Speaker 1: the Earth from space and he's like, this sucks. This
Speaker 1: would be better with a American Spirit cigarette.
Speaker 2: So he takes off in Asoya's TM eleven spacecraft, accompanied
Speaker 2: by cosmonauts, these two cosmonauts, six cameramen, and a Japannite
Speaker 2: Japanese toy mascot. When they reached the Mir space station,
Speaker 2: his two colleagues reported that they quote had never ever
Speaker 2: seen a man vomit that much.
Speaker 1: He also.
Speaker 2: Constantly complained that he felt his head was going to
Speaker 2: pop up from the pressure. There's some ripped footage that
Speaker 2: you can see on YouTube if you want to go
Speaker 2: watch it. Blah blah blah blah blah blah.
Speaker 1: There was like this guy a pond Kurt Is. Was
Speaker 1: he a pawn in a political exercise? Is that what
Speaker 1: we're saying is like they were like, we're going to
Speaker 1: send a journalist up and.
Speaker 2: He was a real journalist.
Speaker 1: He just picked this guy like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he landed. He said he wanted to have a smoke,
Speaker 2: and then this was like a huge deal in Japan
Speaker 2: for the Japanese and or the tobacco industry because it
Speaker 2: was at the time, in nineteen eighty nine, smoking was
Speaker 2: on the rise.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this was a big tobacco sponsored thing.
Speaker 1: I think his was, Yeah, this is Lake Mason.
Speaker 2: He retired as a journalist in nineteen ninety five, so
Speaker 2: only six years after this, so he was he was
Speaker 2: like almost done working. This was like one of his
Speaker 2: final hurrahs, and used his retirement payoff to buy a
Speaker 2: farm near Fukushima, unfortunately, leaving behind his career, his family
Speaker 2: and his friends in Tokyo. What he left behind his family,
Speaker 2: maybe he didn't have kids, Okay, still nuts. But Akima's
Speaker 2: brush with history came again with the Japanese earthquake and
Speaker 2: the Fukushima nuclear meltdown in twenty eleven. As a result
Speaker 2: of the disaster, he had to abandon the simple life. Now,
Speaker 2: he teaches agriculture at Kyoto University of Art and Design,
Speaker 2: with an intensely philosophical view of environmentalism and a deeply
Speaker 2: skeptical outlook on modern industrial agriculture to give one last
Speaker 2: blow to the sinking Soviet ship. The Western media reported
Speaker 2: him to be just a hapless, forty a day whiskey
Speaker 2: swilling idiot, like a Woody Allen character, neurotically bumping around space. However,
Speaker 2: his reflections on his time in space truly cement that
Speaker 2: he was never the space Jester character he was made
Speaker 2: out to be. Oh, I see, yeah, so he was
Speaker 2: like made out to be just like an idiot. But
Speaker 2: then he says some really beautiful stuff. He said. This
Speaker 2: is what he said when about his time in space.
Speaker 2: As I watched the Earth from four hundred klomway, I
Speaker 2: looked back on the history of mankind and thought about
Speaker 2: the repetition of activities that helped us grow to now
Speaker 2: number seven billion people. What is the most basic human activity? Eating?
Speaker 2: I wondered, How seriously I had thought about the act
Speaker 2: of eating or growing things that we eat. How do
Speaker 2: farmers think about the food they grow? I felt I
Speaker 2: couldn't die with having some basic knowledge about these things.
Speaker 2: And what still struck me as impressive was the shining
Speaker 2: blue Earth, which looked like one form of life floating
Speaker 2: in the universe. At the same time, I was reminded
Speaker 2: of the thinness of the blue layer the atmosphere. Such
Speaker 2: a thin atmosphere protects every living thing forest, fish, trees, birds, insects,
Speaker 2: human beings and everything. Wow, there it is.
Speaker 5: This is a rainy day episode of gasses.
Speaker 2: This is right, it's a rainy episode of bananas. It
Speaker 2: might be raining out. It's better than space.
Speaker 1: Folks gain perspective, which is kind of what you would
Speaker 1: hope somebody would looking down at right Earth. Wow, Kurt,
Speaker 1: you want to go to space? Lisa, do you want
Speaker 1: to go to space?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 1: You have the option?
Speaker 5: No, no way, too scared much too chicken.
Speaker 1: Cool space hotel that can rotate. You don't want to
Speaker 1: go float around a jacuzzie, Float out of a jacuzzi,
Speaker 1: into the ceiling, back into the chase the water around
Speaker 1: the room.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that that does sound fun.
Speaker 3: If the if you knock me out and like brought
Speaker 3: me up there, I'd be pleased to be there, But
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna I'm not going to fly.
Speaker 5: It's too scared.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what if? What if it was a space ship
Speaker 2: on top of an airplane? Normal times, you take off
Speaker 2: like an airplane and then it gets really high and
Speaker 2: then you zoom zoom right off of the plane into space.
Speaker 5: I want to say yes, but I still think I
Speaker 5: want to though.
Speaker 3: There's a there's a there's a dream of being bolder
Speaker 3: and less scared of travel.
Speaker 2: There's a dream, there's a dream in Lisa Maggot of
Speaker 2: not being scared of travel. Do you are you scared
Speaker 2: of train travel?
Speaker 5: No? No?
Speaker 2: Okay, car travel.
Speaker 5: Yes, a little bit, but I know, okay. I don't drive.
Speaker 3: I don't drive because I'm a New Yorker, so I
Speaker 3: don't like driving myself. And when other people drive, I'm like,
Speaker 3: who are you? I don't trust you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a comedian. There's a comedian that Kurt
Speaker 1: and I know I will definitely not name names because
Speaker 1: what I'm about to say, but she is pretty successful
Speaker 1: with hard political stances. She takes big political stances, and
Speaker 1: she hates driving so much. She has a driver's license,
Speaker 1: but she doesn't drive. And I know for a fact
Speaker 1: that between shows, like in different places, she'll just hire
Speaker 1: somebody to drive her from one club to another club
Speaker 1: in another state. And to me, it does something with
Speaker 1: my with the authentic city of the political statements. To me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, drive yourself if you want you to believe
Speaker 1: what you're saying, you have to be able to drive
Speaker 1: from point A to point B.
Speaker 5: That's why I don't have.
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly why I can't drive.
Speaker 5: Well, I do have a license, I just can't drive.
Speaker 2: Look at that. Okay, so you actually went and got
Speaker 2: your license. Was that terrifying for you?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 3: I failed twice before. Like this is the level of
Speaker 3: security and driving test is that I failed twice.
Speaker 5: I still couldn't drive.
Speaker 3: But yet I think they kind of have like a
Speaker 3: three rull thing where they're just like the third try,
Speaker 3: you just get it no matter what.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, right, there's go for it, like.
Speaker 5: They're just like you've tried enough where you're good.
Speaker 2: I remember on my uh my driver's test, and I
Speaker 2: had been driving for I don't know, twenty twenty years
Speaker 2: at this point, I just let it lapse because I
Speaker 2: was in New York, and then it was long enough
Speaker 2: that I had to get it again, which is so
Speaker 2: humiliating as an adult, and so I had to go
Speaker 2: out and I had to go out on till I
Speaker 2: think it was like somewhere in Queens where they like
Speaker 2: did the test with me and I had to drive
Speaker 2: with a man and I'd been driving like. I was
Speaker 2: just like, look, I'm just getting this again, you know,
Speaker 2: and he's just like, yeah, we'll see. And then I
Speaker 2: went around a curve like the road was simply curved.
Speaker 2: It went from straight to being slightly curved, and I
Speaker 2: maintained my speed, which was I don't know, twenty eight
Speaker 2: miles an hour, and he he immediately told me to
Speaker 2: pull over and then he lectured me and he says,
Speaker 2: if you do that again, I'm going to fail you.
Speaker 2: And I was just like, what is going on here?
Speaker 2: This is a I'm totally driving like a normal human
Speaker 2: being would drive. And it was just like oh, and
Speaker 2: then all of a sudden you realize like, oh, this
Speaker 2: man has this man has a chip on his shoulder,
Speaker 2: and now he has my future driving. I do not
Speaker 2: want to go through this again. And it's just like
Speaker 2: it's such a vulnerable feeling of just like, oh, I'm periless.
Speaker 2: I'm totally perilous in this car with this man.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I when we moved out here and we all
Speaker 1: had to get California licenses. Eventually I went in there.
Speaker 1: I took off work, like, jumped out at lunch, made
Speaker 1: an appointment at the DMV so I knew I was gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, go pretty quick, which is thank god, make
Speaker 1: an appointment, folks. I don't understand people that don't. It
Speaker 1: could not be easier. It saves you four hours.
Speaker 2: And oh I went yesterday. I went yesterday. I got
Speaker 2: my real ID, my first real ID.
Speaker 5: Ah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it took me forty minutes top to bottom.
Speaker 1: Boom.
Speaker 2: There was I've counted sixty people in line in the
Speaker 2: not appointment line, and there was four people in line
Speaker 2: in the apportment appointment.
Speaker 1: Couldn't be easier. I have to go in like three days.
Speaker 1: I already have that appointment from a week ago. I'm
Speaker 1: going to glide in there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I might not even eat breakfast beforehand. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna get in and get out. So we all
Speaker 1: go in and I go in, you know, rather confidently.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say cocky, but confidently. But I hadn't taken
Speaker 1: a written test since I was fifteen and a half
Speaker 1: years old. And also the rules in California are a
Speaker 1: little different, differently splitting like lane splitting, which, for those
Speaker 1: who don't know, you're legally allowed to drive your motorcycle
Speaker 1: between cars on the highway any of the lanes.
Speaker 6: Looney Tunes crazy, when a car in the world late,
Speaker 6: when a motorcycle goes like sixty through a gridlock, it's
Speaker 6: terrifying for the for like you as a driver, because
Speaker 6: it's like.
Speaker 1: So scary. Also, just make it between the fast lane
Speaker 1: and the next lane over. Just say there's one place
Speaker 1: you can lane split, not any of the lanes. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: So I the way it works is you can get
Speaker 1: three wrong, but if you get four wrong, you fail.
Speaker 1: I think it's only twenty questions, it's not that many.
Speaker 1: And I got like the second question wrong, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I'm like on a qui a show,
Speaker 1: you know. Then I'm like, on whose line is? I mean,
Speaker 1: he wants to be a millionaire. I'm like, oh god,
Speaker 1: what did you get that wrong? I got a couple
Speaker 1: things wrong. I got a distance between cars on the highway.
Speaker 1: I think it was like three car lengths, four car
Speaker 1: lengths or five car you know. It was like, I'm
Speaker 1: like three car lengths, so I guess four car links,
Speaker 1: you idiot.
Speaker 2: And then it's just like we randomly decided four.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was numbers. It was like the school zone
Speaker 1: is twenty five wins in school thirty five wins schools
Speaker 1: not in or whatever, and I go great, and then
Speaker 1: they go when what's residential speed limit in California? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, I truly have no idea, And so I
Speaker 1: got three wrong and with like heat was on and
Speaker 1: I got the last two and I passed, So I
Speaker 1: get the license. So I tell a friend who had
Speaker 1: also moved out at the same time from New York
Speaker 1: and he goes, oh, scotti. He goes, I got three
Speaker 1: wrong and then I was on the last question and
Speaker 1: I did not know the answer. And so he walks
Speaker 1: over to the woman that sits in the room where
Speaker 1: the computers are, where the touchscreens are to do yeah,
Speaker 1: the written test, and he's like, Hi, I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: don't understand like the question the wording. Can you help
Speaker 1: me out? And she goes, well, why don't we just
Speaker 1: do a question right now here? And he goes okay,
Speaker 1: and she goes, huh, here's one in the state of California. Uh.
Speaker 1: The level of blood alcohol content ba C that shows
Speaker 1: that you are an impaired driver is a point five percent.
Speaker 1: That seems a little load, doesn't it. It's just b
Speaker 1: point oh nine percent. Hmm. That's a little high to me.
Speaker 1: Ce one point oh well, that's a lot of drinking
Speaker 1: or d point oh eight that sounds about right. He goes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with D and she goes, and you passed,
Speaker 1: and then he got his license.
Speaker 2: That's awesome.
Speaker 1: It's the cutest thing ever. That because people hate the
Speaker 1: DMV and like it's almost hacked to be like the
Speaker 1: DMV or the worst employees and they're so slow, and
Speaker 1: this nice lady just walked his ass right into a
Speaker 1: driver's life.
Speaker 2: That's so great.
Speaker 1: Point oh five. That seems a little doesn't that so sweet?
Speaker 2: Did you They told you you couldn't smile, right, Scotty
Speaker 2: when you got your pictures?
Speaker 1: Yeah, every time. And I love to smile my licenses.
Speaker 1: And for years people be like, it's so nice that
Speaker 1: you smile in your license. Most guys just look like
Speaker 1: serial killers. And the not this one they said I
Speaker 1: couldn't smile, and then the most recent one before that,
Speaker 1: that's when I learned I was smiling and the guy says,
Speaker 1: don't smile and chinned down, don't smile, And so I
Speaker 1: look down and so I look my mouth's half open. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I look like a mouth breathing.
Speaker 2: He told me to smile. Well me too.
Speaker 3: I was told to I could smile, but only after
Speaker 3: they'd taken the picture.
Speaker 5: So I was like, no, we're set.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh that's that's crazy that they said that to
Speaker 2: you after your pictures taken. You can smile, sweetheart.
Speaker 5: And then I was like no.
Speaker 2: He the reason I know. He's like, you can smile,
Speaker 2: and so I smile, and I was like, oh, I'm
Speaker 2: going to give like a real smile for this pick.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: And and he's like, Okay, you can't cock your head.
Speaker 2: You can't tilt your head. And I was like, all right,
Speaker 2: no problem, and then I go back and then I
Speaker 2: just did the exact same thing, and he's like, you
Speaker 2: can't tilt your head, dude, Well.
Speaker 1: You're told that. You're like me, the camera's at your
Speaker 1: at your nipple height, so you're like looking down. You're
Speaker 1: like it's like a plate. It's like a sandwich perspective.
Speaker 1: It's like I'm about to eat this sandwich and there's
Speaker 1: a camera in there, and so you got fortunes. You
Speaker 1: just do horrible. So now when I do it, I
Speaker 1: take this really wide stance so I'm not looking down
Speaker 1: at the camera, I'm doing like a three quarters split
Speaker 1: and all you know, it's fantastic. I can't wait too manute, well,
Speaker 1: I love it.
Speaker 2: Gotta give me one.
Speaker 1: You're smiling in yours is what you're telling me.
Speaker 2: Oh, I've got the best smile on because every other
Speaker 2: license I've ever gotten, whatever i've had, like four or
Speaker 2: five or something, I've always tried to do a crazy face.
Speaker 2: But it's hard to get away with a crazy face
Speaker 2: because you know it has to be you have to
Speaker 2: make it seem like maybe that's your resting face. And
Speaker 2: so the last one I did was like flaring out
Speaker 2: like the neck muscles and pulling my face down like yes,
Speaker 2: like that, Like it looked like beaker like like that,
Speaker 2: you know, And when I show people, I'm I'm slightly
Speaker 2: embarrassed because it looks like I'm mad, and I don't
Speaker 2: want it to look like I'm mad in my photo.
Speaker 2: So I was like, it'll be nice to just have
Speaker 2: a smiley photo.
Speaker 1: Lisa, did you know Kurt's not drinking for the whole year.
Speaker 1: I did not know that He's doing like a six
Speaker 1: dry dry three sixty nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, a dry three sixty nine. That's okay.
Speaker 5: So you're gonna have to go to next year. Also,
Speaker 5: yeah for a few days.
Speaker 2: No, I didn't start until January twenty second because of
Speaker 2: the fires.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a stress time. You dows a little bit?
Speaker 2: Yeah what that mean?
Speaker 1: Okay, I got one for you. This is Beth Kelly
Speaker 1: sent this and you could send your stories into the
Speaker 1: Bananas Podcast at gmail dot com or the Bananas Podcast
Speaker 1: on Instagram where myself or Lisa Maggott and sometimes Kurtie
Speaker 1: b we'll see your stories. Beth Kelly, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Jump Rope pro saves neighbor and dog from ice pond
Speaker 1: with their jump rope.
Speaker 2: What a nice one, What a nice one.
Speaker 1: This was in The Guardian. That's real. Written by one
Speaker 1: name would not be enough, so it's Ramone Atonio Vargas
Speaker 1: best in the byss Best. When the British editors at
Speaker 1: The Guardian hear a story about someone being saved with
Speaker 1: a jump rope, they'd literally jump out of their seats
Speaker 1: and run to Ramone Antonio Vargas's desk and they say,
Speaker 1: get your ass on the first plane to Westfield, Indiana.
Speaker 1: David Fisher of Westfield, Indiana and his son Felix rescued
Speaker 1: a man who had fallen in after trying to rescue
Speaker 1: a dog. In an extreme instance of life imitating art,
Speaker 1: an author of children's books about a jump rope wielding
Speaker 1: hero reportedly used his jump ropes to save both a
Speaker 1: dog and a young man from drowning after they fell
Speaker 1: into an ice pond in Indiana.
Speaker 5: Wow, definitely set that up. He definitely made.
Speaker 2: He pushed them in.
Speaker 5: He push the dog in, playing all right, let's see
Speaker 5: what happened.
Speaker 2: Hey, somebody saved this dog.
Speaker 1: Anybody just me? Author David Fisher also suspect last name
Speaker 1: for pulling somebody out of the water with a rope.
Speaker 1: Just jumping rope with my son, Felix, name of a
Speaker 1: famous cat. Here we go these exploits in December by
Speaker 1: David Fisher, who also jumps rope professionally.
Speaker 2: Of course he does.
Speaker 1: Uh So, there's like so many people on Instagram TikTok.
Speaker 1: They are like jump rope people. I wonder if any
Speaker 1: of them can talk? Should we? We should find somebody
Speaker 1: that's really like an jump rope influencer. That's fun. But yeah,
Speaker 1: there are people that just jump rope and make faces
Speaker 1: and do it to different like pop songs. Great, I
Speaker 1: mean if any of them can talk. I would love
Speaker 1: to jump rope influence.
Speaker 2: Let's just mash. Let's just mash three words together that
Speaker 2: I never thought i'd hear, jump rope influencer and then
Speaker 2: fucking put them on the show. I'd love to.
Speaker 1: Lisa, did you have a skip It when you were
Speaker 1: a child?
Speaker 5: I did, loved it.
Speaker 1: Great toy, great toy.
Speaker 5: Really great, really great? Do they they don't exist anymore? Right?
Speaker 1: You could still buy a skippet I love them recently.
Speaker 2: And you can buy a bop It too, same company,
Speaker 2: bop It, great toy. Yeah. Devil Sticks, Yeah.
Speaker 1: This is very good at devil Sticks.
Speaker 2: I could do it a little bait.
Speaker 1: Threshold.
Speaker 3: Sorry, go ahead, No, no, I'm just saying I was
Speaker 3: pretty good at it. So yeah, yes, I don't want
Speaker 3: to brag, but like I was the best in my class.
Speaker 5: No I was, but it was really a cool thing
Speaker 5: to do.
Speaker 1: That is really cool. Bring it to Bananas Fest. Bring
Speaker 1: your thing to Bananas Fest, Lisa Meggant on the devil Sticks.
Speaker 1: You heard it here first. You don't have to do that,
Speaker 1: don't worry. Good, Well, those exploits. I bet people in
Speaker 1: Denver are great at devil Sticks. I bet if there's
Speaker 1: one city just still.
Speaker 2: The capital live hands down the Capitol.
Speaker 1: It's bolder or Denver, Colorado. Those exploits in December by
Speaker 1: David Fisher, who jumps rope professionally, recently earned him recognition
Speaker 1: as a hero as he is from the municipal government
Speaker 1: of Westfield. As the Indiana television news station w r
Speaker 1: TV told it, okay, I athority.
Speaker 2: This sold books for him. I hope it's.
Speaker 1: Going to after after he gets the Banana Boys bomp Yep,
Speaker 1: he's gonna buy that way, he'll have the longest jump
Speaker 1: rope in Indiana by the time we're done with authorities, say.
Speaker 1: Fisher sprang into action after his son Felix, heard a
Speaker 1: man screaming for help. Scary they realized the neighbor's dog
Speaker 1: had gone into an ice pond while chasing geese and
Speaker 1: calls the dog to fall in and turn. An eighteen
Speaker 1: year old man went in after the dog, trying to
Speaker 1: save the animal and ended up falling into That's when
Speaker 1: Fisher grabbed his jump rope bag, pulled out his you
Speaker 1: guessed it, jumbled Dutch jump ropes, and bravely, if gingerly,
Speaker 1: stepped out onto the ice he told w r t V.
Speaker 1: I instinctively just went in. Fisher recounted, I could hear
Speaker 1: the ice cracking beneath my feet. When I did finally arrive,
Speaker 1: I slung the ropes out to him. He grabbed one handle,
Speaker 1: and bit by bit we pulled him safely out of
Speaker 1: the ice pond, said Fisher, whose son helped him complete
Speaker 1: the rescue. The Fishers then took the neighbor and his
Speaker 1: dog into the safety of their home so they could
Speaker 1: warm up and wait for first responders to arrive. Fisher
Speaker 1: had the tool to save the day on that occasion
Speaker 1: because he travels the world as a professional jump roper.
Speaker 2: He travels the world.
Speaker 1: This tea must be real.
Speaker 2: Good to see this man jump rope.
Speaker 3: Well, I bet he jump roke out to rescue them,
Speaker 3: Like I feel like probably it was just that's.
Speaker 2: Why the ice was cracking. He was actually on like
Speaker 2: a pretty hard piece of ice, but he was jumping
Speaker 2: so hard.
Speaker 5: But he was jumping. He wouldn't stop.
Speaker 1: Jump roping is the hardest exercise that curtain were fitness
Speaker 1: guys now, Lisa se medics, We're now obsessed with fitness
Speaker 1: and we don't go to the same gym but I like,
Speaker 1: I spiritually feel when I'm at the gym that Kurt's
Speaker 1: also at the gym with me. We're black, and there's
Speaker 1: a boxing room in my gym with you know, heavy
Speaker 1: bags and all stuff, but there's jump ropes, and if
Speaker 1: I'm lying, I'm dying. I just the other day picked
Speaker 1: it up and I tried to jump rope for two
Speaker 1: minute straight.
Speaker 2: Oh oh, possible thirty seconds of jump roping and you're broken.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. First of all, I sort of forgot
Speaker 1: how to jump rope. I was doing the one where
Speaker 1: you do the sort of double jump like you like, yeah, yeah, bounce,
Speaker 1: bounce and instead, and then I'm like, wait, Scotty, you're doubled.
Speaker 1: You're yeah, topping in between the jumps. And then so
Speaker 1: I just started to do where you're doing, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, I really forty seconds in and I
Speaker 1: was like, I have a lot of respect for people
Speaker 1: who can jump rope, for like boxers, like ten minutes,
Speaker 1: half an hour.
Speaker 2: That's crazy. Also also for and also to go back
Speaker 2: to the ice too. If you're saving someone from the ice,
Speaker 2: just lay down, lay down, lay down, laid down. I
Speaker 2: think we all know that, but it sounds like jump
Speaker 2: rope guy is just jumping out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, lay down, pal, He's really good though, I mean,
Speaker 1: he's a he travels the world as a professional jump roper. K.
Speaker 1: You can't expect him to put it down when.
Speaker 2: He says that that means that he once went to Canada.
Speaker 2: That is all. That means. He had one trip to
Speaker 2: Toronto and one trip to Cantcud where he happened to
Speaker 2: jump rope. I highly doubt that this man is being
Speaker 2: paid to travel for people to watch him jump rope.
Speaker 2: I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it.
Speaker 1: Well, he might be a banana's fest too. Maybe we'll
Speaker 1: get in touch with them. According to fish Or here's
Speaker 1: where it gets a little extra bananas, he has collected
Speaker 1: three world records involving jumping rope while seated on the ground.
Speaker 1: What submit, Maybe that's what he did to get out
Speaker 1: on the ice.
Speaker 2: But jump jump just scoot like a dog across a
Speaker 2: carpet from she.
Speaker 1: Said, he also performs quote a very interactive, visually entertaining
Speaker 1: style of jump rope show end quote.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't believe it.
Speaker 5: I want to see it. I want to see the
Speaker 5: seated jump roping.
Speaker 1: I mean this must be.
Speaker 2: In he must be rare.
Speaker 1: Oh, his products must be so firm. He must have
Speaker 1: that firmas his UH.
Speaker 2: If he's cracking nuts, if he's doing like cracking nuts
Speaker 2: with both legs while he's jump roping, maybe I can
Speaker 2: understand people are coming to see him. You know, people
Speaker 2: are throwing chestnuts at him. He's catching him with his
Speaker 2: with his UH, with his muscles on his legs. One
Speaker 2: are those things called calf cafe calf?
Speaker 1: Yeah, his gams. So I just clicked his website for
Speaker 1: the first time. His website, if you want to check
Speaker 1: this guy out, it is rockin rope Warrior dot com
Speaker 1: and the Rock and Rub Warrior himself, David Fish, has
Speaker 1: started in nineteen ninety three.
Speaker 2: I mean his videos, he's been doing thirty two years
Speaker 2: a jump roping.
Speaker 1: He sells his own He sells a ten foot rope
Speaker 1: Warrior Performance jump rope for twelve dollars, and he sells
Speaker 1: a nine foot one for twelve dollars. And you're never
Speaker 1: going to guess how much the eight dollar one is.
Speaker 1: It's eleven dollars.
Speaker 2: I was joking before when I said this man put
Speaker 2: that in the lake.
Speaker 1: This man put that dog in the lake, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 2: There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3: Also the homepage, his head is cut off completely to
Speaker 3: see his Oh, he's butt jumping in it.
Speaker 1: He is. I see it too. He's doing rope mastics
Speaker 1: for nineteen dollars. You can get his rope Mastics Skills
Speaker 1: DVD and you can learn over fifty jump rope tricks
Speaker 1: to amaze your friends. And the one I'm seeing, he
Speaker 1: is wearing like red and black vertically striped leggings. He's
Speaker 1: wearing a tank top and some white sneakers and white socks,
Speaker 1: and he is doing a butt jump off the ground.
Speaker 1: He is jumping rope, just using.
Speaker 2: His with his butt. How far is it butt off
Speaker 2: the ground? How many is inches?
Speaker 1: Let's just put it this way. I could slide you
Speaker 1: an ice cold mug of beer underneath his hopping butt. No,
Speaker 1: if he was doing it on a bar, just put
Speaker 1: it that way, all right.
Speaker 2: Well, maybe that's what the show is, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that this episode might be called Rock and
Speaker 1: Roll Warriors with Lisa maggod.
Speaker 2: Okay, sounds good. Butt jumping with Lisa, Yeah, butt jumping.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I want to give this man less rock.
Speaker 1: And butt jumps with Leeza maggod Rock and butt jumping Lisa.
Speaker 1: Do you approve of this?
Speaker 5: I do none of him drowning a dog, though, but
Speaker 5: of a name.
Speaker 1: Allegedly, Fisher's website said he has treated to US presidents
Speaker 1: George Bush, although he does not specify witch Bush and
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, and a Russian one Boris Yeltson to his
Speaker 1: butt jumping performances. Jumping rope is such a passion for
Speaker 1: Fisher that he's written fictional children's books centering on a
Speaker 1: hero who defeats evil enemies with a laser like rope.
Speaker 1: The hero shares Fisher's nickname, the Rope Warrior, according to
Speaker 1: the author's website. Westfield City Council honored the Fishers at
Speaker 1: its meeting on Monday.
Speaker 2: You know what, we don't talk enough about the fact
Speaker 2: that we just had a president. It was like George
Speaker 2: Bush and then just a little a little while later,
Speaker 2: a George Bush again, a different person. That's very weird.
Speaker 2: That's so strange. If we had a Grover Creve Cleveland
Speaker 2: and then just like four eight years later there was
Speaker 2: another Grover Cleveland. That would be crazy.
Speaker 1: It was John Adams and Johnny Adams y. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: also it's interesting that you picked Grover Cleveland, Kurt, Yeah,
Speaker 1: why because Grover Cleveland is the only president. Well, I
Speaker 1: guess Donnie Dumps just did it again. But Grover Cleveland
Speaker 1: was the I think twenty second president and then like
Speaker 1: the twenty fourth, so he got elected, didn't get elected,
Speaker 1: got re elected. I guess Donnie Dumps did it next.
Speaker 1: But uh, that's a rare feat in history. So maybe
Speaker 1: the new Grover Cleveland like shaved his mustache and they're like, hey,
Speaker 1: who's that guy? Who is that?
Speaker 2: I'm Grover another Grover. I will lead us into some
Speaker 2: thumbs up. Scientists are trying to figure out why hockey
Speaker 2: players all sound Canadian.
Speaker 1: I believe it.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Eddie Laposi wants to thumb up his partner for supporting
Speaker 1: him for three years while Eddie did his MBA. It
Speaker 1: was extremely hard, but her support made it achievable. Thumbs
Speaker 1: up to you, partner. You got Eddie across the finish line.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Megan Boyce is thumbing up her friend Cheryl Waters, which
Speaker 1: is a great name, who has acute mioid leukemia and
Speaker 1: is absolutely kicking its ass and treatment. Cheryl's strongest, most
Speaker 1: amazing person that Megan knows. And if all the ban
Speaker 1: animals could take a moment right now, we're going to
Speaker 1: count down to send Cheryl good healthy vibes. Yes, that
Speaker 1: would be amazing. Ready, we're gonna take a moment of
Speaker 1: good vibes for Sheryl Waters and her treatment. One, two, three, excellent,
Speaker 1: great work.
Speaker 2: Everybody thumbs up to everybody, thumbs up.
Speaker 1: To you, Thumbs up to you. Here's another great one.
Speaker 1: Taylor Leiston or Lyston wants to thumb herself up. She's
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty nine days alcohol free. She's on
Speaker 1: her way, Curdie b to her three sixty nine. Yeah,
Speaker 1: she's a second time postpart a mom and did not
Speaker 1: realize how much of a crutch alcohol had become, which
Speaker 1: is how it happens. It sneaks up on you.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, started out kind of way out, started out recreational,
Speaker 2: ended kind of medical, classic old steady line that no
Speaker 2: one knows, but mem that's okay.
Speaker 1: She says she's survived bacherette parties and even weddings while
Speaker 1: being sober, which is tough, especially bachelerette parties. A wedding,
Speaker 1: there's food, there's dancing, there's socializing. But bachelor parties are like,
Speaker 1: get me through this, and Taylor says, as a child
Speaker 1: of an alcoholic, this is a really big deal for her.
Speaker 1: So double thumbs up to you, Taylor, and to all
Speaker 1: urban animals who are dry. Sixty nine ing sixty nine
Speaker 1: days consecutive no alcohol. Let me know if you want
Speaker 1: a bomber sticker, I'll mail you one. Yes, internationally, I
Speaker 1: bought some international stamps. Yes, you did last, but not least.
Speaker 1: Here's an interesting one thumbs up. I believe this is
Speaker 1: a Denver based tattooer, Darren Ariondo, who beat the world
Speaker 1: record by tattooing for seventy two hours straight. So one
Speaker 1: session of doing tattoos for three days. I ran the
Speaker 1: numbers and I said to Darren, congratulations obviously, But I said,
Speaker 1: did you hallucinate? Did you feel like insane? He goes,
Speaker 1: I didn't hallucinate, but I got drunk without drinking alcohol,
Speaker 1: so I think he did hallucinate. This is what Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yees, seventy two hours straight one session of NonStop tattooing.
Speaker 2: Crazy.
Speaker 1: Wow. He may be one of the bananimals doing banana
Speaker 1: doing tattoos for us a bananas fest year. If we
Speaker 1: can get yes. Yes. Anyways, those are thumbs up. Thanks everybody.
Speaker 1: You're all doing great. You're doing better than you think.
Speaker 1: That's the secret about life.
Speaker 2: All right, of course we are here with full human
Speaker 2: Lisa Maggott. Hello, Lisa, Hello.
Speaker 5: Again?
Speaker 2: Are you ready for it?
Speaker 5: All the time?
Speaker 2: You ready to hear why scientists are trying to figure
Speaker 2: out why hockey players all sound Canadian, which I didn't
Speaker 2: even know was a thing. No, they're not. It's from
Speaker 2: fizz dot org. Fizz org. This is interesting. This is
Speaker 2: written by the Acoustical Society of America.
Speaker 1: What sounds good to me? It is? It is, and
Speaker 1: this is music.
Speaker 2: The title of this one is to sound like a
Speaker 2: hockey player, speak like a Canadian. As a hockey player,
Speaker 2: Andrew Bray was familiar with the slang thrown around the
Speaker 2: barn the hockey arena. As a linguist, he wanted to
Speaker 2: understand how short specific jargon evolved and permeated across teams, regions,
Speaker 2: and countries. In pursuit of the socio linguistic biscuit puck,
Speaker 2: he faced an unexpected question. It was while conducting this
Speaker 2: initial study that I was asked a question that has
Speaker 2: since shaped the direction of my subsequent research. Are you
Speaker 2: trying to figure out why the Americans sound like fake Canadians?
Speaker 2: Canadian English dialects are start explain what a Canadian dialect is?
Speaker 2: And Bray, who's from the University of Rochester, presented an
Speaker 2: investigation into American hockey player's use of Canadian English accents
Speaker 2: May sixteenth at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society
Speaker 2: of America and the Canadian Acoustical Association held May thirteenth
Speaker 2: to seventeenth the Shaw Center located here out down Ottawa, Ontario,
Speaker 2: Canadaday Sunday Sunday in the Blood at the Shaw Center,
Speaker 2: Come on down for the Acoustical Society of America. Everybody
Speaker 2: studying how hockey players talk required listening to them talk
Speaker 2: about hockey to sechnique, vowel articulation, and the vast collection
Speaker 2: of sports specific slang terminology that players incorporated into their speech.
Speaker 2: Bray visited different professional teams to interview their American born players. Quote.
Speaker 2: In these interviews, I would ask players to discuss their
Speaker 2: career trajectories, including when and why they began playing hockeyh
Speaker 2: blah blah blah blah. The interview sought to get players
Speaker 2: talking about hockey for as long as possible. Bray found
Speaker 2: that the American athletes borrowed features of the Canadian English accent,
Speaker 2: specifically for hockey specific terms and jargon, but do not
Speaker 2: follow the underlying rules behind the punk pronunciation, which could
Speaker 2: explain why the accent might sound fake to a Canadian quote.
Speaker 2: It is important to note that American hockey players are
Speaker 2: not trying to shift their speech to sound more Canadian. Rather,
Speaker 2: they're trying to sound more like a hockey player. That's
Speaker 2: interesting somewhat.
Speaker 1: I think that's interesting. They're blending in.
Speaker 2: They're blending in. There's sports in the same way that
Speaker 2: I would always notice because I had I surfed in Rockaway,
Speaker 2: Queens for about ten years, ten eleven years of my
Speaker 2: life maybe it was twelve years. I had that place happen,
Speaker 2: and everyone would adopt either a SoCal thing or a
Speaker 2: Hawaiian thing, Like in two thousand and three, everyone was
Speaker 2: bra like all that time. You know, it's up Bra,
Speaker 2: you know, And it was always like, how's it like,
Speaker 2: And that's a real Hawaiian thing, Like just walking up
Speaker 2: at the beach and it would just be some dude
Speaker 2: from Queens with a queen's accent, like, how's it, Bra.
Speaker 1: How's it brought up? Yeah, that's good, that's good to
Speaker 1: co opt that so far away, that's fine.
Speaker 2: When I first started surfing in rock Way, I swear
Speaker 2: to god, this is like two thousand and three or something,
Speaker 2: there was a guy who surfed pretty often but did
Speaker 2: not own surf shorts like board shorts, and would surf
Speaker 2: shirtless with jean shorts on. And he would battle out
Speaker 2: on a log board with jorts on, just like like
Speaker 2: literally they used to be jeans. He cut them off
Speaker 2: at the knee and he would surf in them. The
Speaker 2: most uncomfortable piece of clothing to get wet in the
Speaker 2: history of clothing. And that was what it was like
Speaker 2: back then, just a lot of jorts out in the lineup.
Speaker 1: Lisa, you're in You're in New York City, You're you
Speaker 1: live in New York City. Is there a neighborhood weirdo
Speaker 1: in your neighborhood? Is there somebody you see regularly who
Speaker 1: is a character of you know, the ten block RADII.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's a good question. I don't have.
Speaker 3: The naked Cowboy is not near enough to count, But
Speaker 3: that is an thing for person made.
Speaker 2: The fact that he's made a career out of it
Speaker 2: and he's like Internet.
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the dream. That's the dream.
Speaker 1: I got a nice bob, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's got to be pretty old at this point.
Speaker 2: He's been doing that for like thirty years.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't actually, I don't even know if he's still around.
Speaker 3: It's just his his legend is at least.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's a lie, I think.
Speaker 2: But you haven't seen him.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen it, but he just I just think
Speaker 3: of him sometimes. No, I guess there's the person who
Speaker 3: just yells a lot, but that's not really crazy.
Speaker 5: It's not like a fun crazy thing.
Speaker 3: It's just, yeah, someone on the corner who is always
Speaker 3: on the corner and yelling.
Speaker 2: There used to be a guy. There used to be
Speaker 2: a guy in Baltimore and Hamden that would he would
Speaker 2: stand on one specific street corner. He was always in
Speaker 2: a bathrobe and in his hands he would have like
Speaker 2: toothbrushes and hair brushes, all different brushes, and he would
Speaker 2: just screw mean personal hygiene.
Speaker 5: One dollar.
Speaker 2: That you would like use his toothbrush?
Speaker 5: Yeah, Like, are they individually packaged.
Speaker 2: Loose dirty toothbrushes and hair brushes? That you could come
Speaker 2: up and you could use them if you wanted for
Speaker 2: a dollar.
Speaker 5: Oh you could use it like you didn't buy it,
Speaker 5: you got it.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you could use it. Yeah yeah yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's that's a reused part of reduce, reuse, recycle.
Speaker 5: Yeah, no, he's.
Speaker 1: I mean my buddy Skip, I'm sure I mentioned this
Speaker 1: a long time ago. He worked at a Whole Foods
Speaker 1: outside of Boston and in the coffee department. Every morning
Speaker 1: a guy would show up and like loose gym socks
Speaker 1: and like outfit like he had been playing basketball with
Speaker 1: a deflated basketball pinched under his arm and to his side,
Speaker 1: and act like he had just played basketball, and then
Speaker 1: order the same order of coffee and leave. Every day
Speaker 1: would show up with a deflated basketball, just like shoot
Speaker 1: the breeze what the baristas. I think Skip was the
Speaker 1: manager of the department, And and yeah, this guy would
Speaker 1: show up as you had just come from the courts
Speaker 1: playing some early morning basketball with a fully deflated basketball
Speaker 1: just got I just.
Speaker 2: Got finished to flat in the ball, you know, after
Speaker 2: the game, which is what everybody does hard when they're
Speaker 2: done playing basketball. Everybody deflates their balls and goes home.
Speaker 1: Oh God. When I was in college, we went and
Speaker 1: saw UMass has a very good ice hockey team, and
Speaker 1: they won the Frozen Four in twenty twenty. But they
Speaker 1: were good. They were always competitive. Our big rivals were
Speaker 1: University of New Hampshire, Boston College, Boston University.
Speaker 5: Did they sound Canadian? Did they sound yes?
Speaker 1: They got well, they sounded a little Bostonian too, And
Speaker 1: so the we were superfans. We would bang on the glass,
Speaker 1: we'd scream, we'd chant. And the big thing at UMass
Speaker 1: is when we would score on the other team, we
Speaker 1: start pointing at their goalie and call them a sieve
Speaker 1: like a calender, like a sieve, like something that stays through.
Speaker 1: And then pointed our goalie and say goalie, and so
Speaker 1: you go, goalie siev goalie say, and get louder and
Speaker 1: louder and louder. It was very fun and very dumb.
Speaker 1: And the guy that would lead it was a student
Speaker 1: who I never really got to know because he would
Speaker 1: paint his face like the Darth Maul character in Star
Speaker 1: Wars and then wearing a yellow pasta calendar on his head,
Speaker 1: and so he would lead lead the goalie sieve and
Speaker 1: for years, and we love the guy. He got to
Speaker 1: know us, We got to know him, but just us
Speaker 1: like drunk fans cheering for our college hockey team. So
Speaker 1: we started getting better. We won some mid games, and
Speaker 1: we won this game in overtime, and we're banging on
Speaker 1: the glass so hard that the next hockey game they
Speaker 1: handed out flyers that said you're no longer allowed to
Speaker 1: bang on the glass, which is the most fun thing
Speaker 1: you could do as a college student. Yeah, going to
Speaker 1: a free hockey game with your friends. And so this guy,
Speaker 1: I think was like pre Law the Darth Maul, with
Speaker 1: a Pasta calender on his head, Pasa straighter on his head,
Speaker 1: filled out a petition that said, we feel unsafe because
Speaker 1: if our hands can break the plexiglass of the glass,
Speaker 1: then we're afraid for our own safe that the puck
Speaker 1: or the players will come through the glass and kill us.
Speaker 1: And we just started passing this clipboard around and signing
Speaker 1: our names. We had hundreds of signatures of students saying
Speaker 1: we no longer feel safe in the Mullin Center. If
Speaker 1: our slapping, bare hands can break this glass, then the
Speaker 1: hockey puck will kill us if it comes through. In
Speaker 1: the next game, we were allowed to hit again and
Speaker 1: they did not care. And side note my good friend
Speaker 1: John Green. At the time, there was a make seven
Speaker 1: up Yours was a slogan for seven up the soda
Speaker 1: and on the front of a T shirt Green t
Speaker 1: shirt said make seven and then on the back it
Speaker 1: said up yours. That was the joke. I think Godfree,
Speaker 1: the comedian, was the spokesman for it. So John had
Speaker 1: a make seven up years T shirt and he had
Speaker 1: folded it so it's at up yours. And on the
Speaker 1: game we got reinstated that we could bang on the glass.
Speaker 1: We're playing BU It's super competitive. The whole place is
Speaker 1: really loud, and one of the UMS players hits the
Speaker 1: Boston University player into the glass right in front of John,
Speaker 1: and John holds up the up yours and the player
Speaker 1: that he hit sees it, and then John turns and
Speaker 1: holds it up to everybody in the student section and
Speaker 1: people jumped to their feet, screaming, cheering. It was like
Speaker 1: watching one of my best friends have like a peak moment,
Speaker 1: maybe the happiest moment of his entire life. The right
Speaker 1: shirt at the right game, at the right time, with
Speaker 1: the right phrase, and we were just chanting up yours after.
Speaker 1: I'm not one to go back and say college were
Speaker 1: the best years of my life. I think next year
Speaker 1: is going to be the best year of my life.
Speaker 1: And that was a fun time.
Speaker 2: Hot damn, what was the best years of your life? Lisa?
Speaker 1: That's right, it was.
Speaker 5: It was college one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: It was.
Speaker 3: Yes, I high school was so bad for me that
Speaker 3: like college was Suddenly I was like, oh I can
Speaker 3: have friends, like I can be cool. And it was
Speaker 3: very exciting to learn that, yes, high school is bad
Speaker 3: for me. So I just like when I discovered that
Speaker 3: I was like a human that could have fun. That
Speaker 3: was really exciting. Oh so yeah, yeah it's a happy ending,
Speaker 3: I get not ending, but.
Speaker 1: That's a good lesson.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah yeah. How old are you? How old are
Speaker 2: you in your head?
Speaker 5: That is a really good question. I think I'm twenty six.
Speaker 2: Twenty six, all right, great Scotti? How old are you
Speaker 2: in your head?
Speaker 1: Three four hundred years old? Probably I came over on
Speaker 1: a wooden chip and yeah, like I like to put
Speaker 1: a nice hard salve on my crack knuckles and just
Speaker 1: put in a good day's word there. It is.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 2: I think I'm thirty six, thirty five, thirty five or
Speaker 2: thirty six. That's how that's in my head.
Speaker 1: Hey, also, kerk, congratulations on your Super Bowl commercial. Dude,
Speaker 1: that's a big deal.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, thanks Bud.
Speaker 1: My phone up not just you know, not DMS from
Speaker 1: ban Animals going, Wait, did I just see Kurt? Was
Speaker 1: that Kurt? Was that curty be? I mean a lot.
Speaker 2: I was watching the game at at a at a
Speaker 2: classmate's home. They were nice enough. They have a beautiful
Speaker 2: barbecue every Super Bowl and they invited us this year
Speaker 2: and we're very very happy to be. Their kids are
Speaker 2: all running around, there's all these people that I do
Speaker 2: not know. And the owner of the house walked in
Speaker 2: and it's the only time he did this for the
Speaker 2: entire game. Came in and then went to turn the
Speaker 2: volume up on the volume button and instead hit the
Speaker 2: input button and it turned it off, and it turned
Speaker 2: it to something else, and it was about maybe it
Speaker 2: was like twenty five seconds, thirty seconds. That was when
Speaker 2: my commercial air. So I had no idea. Oh, no,
Speaker 2: entire time. The thing was on for all three hours
Speaker 2: or three and a half hours of the game. The
Speaker 2: one time it was turned off for thirty seconds, he
Speaker 2: turns the TV back onto my phone just starts blowing up.
Speaker 2: But it was like, right then.
Speaker 1: It was Infinity Right. Yeah, it's a.
Speaker 2: Whole campaign, so there'll be a bunch more.
Speaker 5: Ah, that's exciting.
Speaker 1: I had friends and family on the East Coast, especially
Speaker 1: been like Curdie B, like my sister, like oh guys
Speaker 1: went to college with like New York friends, and they
Speaker 1: all saw you. It's funny, like because that's your second one.
Speaker 1: You were in one with Cardi B. Weren't you. Wasn't
Speaker 1: that a super Bowl?
Speaker 2: That was?
Speaker 1: It was to Lisa. Can you imagine knowing somebody that's
Speaker 1: been in two Super Bowl commercials?
Speaker 5: I can't. Until today, I didn't know anybody. It's true.
Speaker 5: I didn't know anybody who'd been in walk.
Speaker 3: No, maybe I know what, but not definitely not to
Speaker 3: not to And you can talk to you like I
Speaker 3: talk to you so that I know.
Speaker 2: You could talk to me. And I look like a
Speaker 2: little wet bird right.
Speaker 1: Now, a thirty six year old wet bird.
Speaker 2: Well, thank you so much Lisa for being on the show.
Speaker 2: Did can you believe it went that fast?
Speaker 5: No? I'm ready to keep talking.
Speaker 2: I've got I know that is say full episode.
Speaker 1: I mean, do you want to do a send off?
Speaker 1: Do you have anything to say to the because you
Speaker 1: have your own fans, some of the ban animals have
Speaker 1: become like Lisa Maggot stands, Yeah.
Speaker 5: It's very exciting. Keep it up. More people can join
Speaker 5: the Lisa stan.
Speaker 3: I don't really have anything I'm advertising. I do want
Speaker 3: to say, I've decided I'm going to call myself Plantain.
Speaker 5: Girl number one.
Speaker 3: Okay, great, it's a different It's similar enough, but like different.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a PG, he'd say, Lisa Maggot's rated PG. Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Other than that, I have nothing just great. Animals are great.
Speaker 5: Love everyone.
Speaker 1: That's sweet. Well, thank you for all your hard work.
Speaker 1: At least also helps us with Bananas Fest. The mailing
Speaker 1: list emails everything, so thank you on air from Kurtie
Speaker 1: B and I. We really appreciate everything you do. You
Speaker 1: do a great job. Ye thank you, And do you
Speaker 1: want to say bananas with us? That seems like a
Speaker 1: good way to wrap her up tight yeak three two
Speaker 1: one bananas good variety there. Bananas is an exactly right
Speaker 1: media production.
Speaker 2: Our producer and engineer is Katie Levine.
Speaker 1: The catchy bananas theme song was composed and performed by Khan.
Speaker 2: Artwork for Bananas was designed by Travis Millard.
Speaker 1: And our benevolent overlords are the Great Karen Kilgarriff and
Speaker 1: Georgia Hartstart
Speaker 2: And Lisa Maggott is our full human, not a robot
Speaker 2: internm